The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-18

to chill your attention 70 the very 'powof'
| full influence exerted upon the politics
Of the State in general and upon cities
| In PARTICULAR herein possibly lies the
reason why SO many political leaders
are so active in their endeavors to de-
feat the present amendment-it may be
past pledges are being redeemed.)
Mr. Geo. X. Finley, leading politi-
clan of Galveston, makes this announce
ment before critical audience Of that
city: There are 400 saloons in Calves
ton dragging men daily down to perdi-
tion." He stated that only 1880
was paid the State in revenue last year,
while If they had paid all that they
should, it would have been about SlOO-
900.
Again, McFinlay in confirmation
of the fact already stated, that saloons
exert controlling influence upon cleo
tons, that every man who has been
elected to office in Texas for many years,
had been compelled to make some sort
of alliance with the whisky men,"
Again, you declare that the revenue
received by the State exceeds by $50,
7G6. 26. the amount paid by the State for
all prosecutions during the period OF
two years, you then ask this question
"If the occupation taxes on the liquor
traffic pay more than half the whole ex'
pense of criminal cases, what good rea'
son can there be for abolishing this
revenue and placing the burden upon
other sources2"
IL your statement relative to the cost
of criminal prosecutions were correct,
there would be the all sufiicinet reason
that no State can, for revenue, afford to
license traffic fraught with such terri
BILE evils as this, nor could 1t afford to
educate its citizens to rely upon crime
breeding traffic for funds to support the
government, for compromising with Eel
ony by the State for a money considers
ton is the certain outcome of such q
fiscal policy
You next touch favorite argument OF
all anti-prohibibition orators, to-wit
Prohibition does not prohibit" anc
enter upon statistical argument tC
prove your position, but alas fol-
Won. your deductions will
not bear the calcium light of investiga
ton, you quote correctly the interna
revenue statistics. From Maine the gov
eminent received 500, 554.74. To Maine
was issued 951 retail license. With $50
900 inhabitants this is one to every III
inhabitants. At least one.half of thu
951 Essences issued by the United States
are to legitimate druggists, leaving only
about 500 violators of the prohibition
law in the state. Let us compare Con
, neticut with Name both are New Eng
land states in juxtaposition. One pro
hibition state, the Other license state
3 Connecticut had a population at the las
| census of 622, 700; Names population
then was 64S, 936. Connecticut ha
, /, s74 retail liquor dealers; Maine has 95l
I Connecticut pays revenue license S2l7,'
r 5s4; Maine pays 500, 554.74; Connection
has one retail liquor dealer to every ~
I inhabitants; Maine one to every 71O
: Maine pays about one ninth as much in
: ternal revenue as Connecticut and ha
r one-third as many retailers. 1t mp
! pears that there is really some prohibi
5 ton in Maine after all
l would venture to ask you, my dea
general, If It is not passing strange tina
people of such native shrewdness as
r New England Yankee would, after 81
years of statutory prohibition, vote
into their constitution by majority o
three to one, IL they believed II to be
sham and failureP AS 10 Iowa and Kan
, sas, would, with extreme difference
suggest that these states are passing thu
eliminative period of prohibition, II
which the large number OF license
issued by the internal revenue bureau
really indicate the desperate characte
of the fight the liquor men are making
to defeat the enforcement OF the laws II
Kansas and Iowa. Where are the IL
; licenses issued to the liquor sellers oI
Sioux City, Iowai All these have beer
closed since the death Of Haddock. hence
represent nothing, being only grave
atnnaa Of daad aalonna An instance n